The Queen's Counsel has featured in several high-profile cases since being admitted to the bar in 1986, including the defence of convicted murderer Mark Lundy.

Australasia’s last remaining bottle house has sprung a leak.

The news comes as five new Waikato cases are announced and the region's level 3 lockdown line is extended further south.

Two men, charged with the murder of Te Kuiti man Anthony Takrouna Bell, will appear in the Hamilton District Court on Friday.

The fear of further hold-ups and the carrot of central government funding was enough to sway Ashburton's councillors as second-bridge plans forge ahead.

The mother of a Māori girl in the care of Pākehā foster parents has appealed a judge's ruling that prevents the 6-year-old returning to whānau or iwi.

Daniel Fitzgerald, who had a history of grabbing strangers in the street, received a seven-year jail term for kissing a woman. Now he's won at the Supreme Court.

Security footage of a ram raid gone wrong in Kawerau shows two people running from the scene, one of whom was "well and truly alight".

Michael Skerrett lodged an official complaint after $400,000 given out as loans was written-off, then called a meeting of rūnaka​ members to explain his actions.

A man who exposed himself in front of children says he has an “itching problem” and is very embarrassed by what happened.

The Manawatū wind farm incident on Wednesday is considered extremely rare, with hopes drone footage will provide clues to its cause.

A “special representative” will be sent to the Middle East to help extract more than 1000 New Zealanders and visa holders stranded in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.

Three people were taken to hospital with serious injuries and another three sustained minor injuries after an incident on the Waimakariri river.

Statistics show huge disparity between higher and socio-economic areas and rural areas lagging behind

The collision between a milk tanker and a car left one person dead and closed the road at Lake Rotoma, near Rotorua.

Whangārei residents are hoping they haven't been exposed to the virus, but an expert says its spread out of Auckland is a sign of things to come.

Taranaki is now at the border of the Covid-19 Delta outbreak with Waikato’s level 3 restrictions extended south to the Mōkau river.

A police officer thought he was going to be killed by a Taranaki man on a “drug-induced” spree that saw him slice a man's face, and attack multiple officers and a police dog.

There will be no school drop off or getting the bus to work on October 18, with bus drivers set to strike after not getting paid a promised living wage.

On one side of the highway, 82 per cent have had their first dose of the vaccine, on the other, only 66 per cent.